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<blockquote data-quote="8 Ace" data-source="post: 8395134" data-attributes="member: 44048"><p>All gone wrong this year. Drilled our OSR into dry tilth on 12th/13th September. Dry summer, no significant rain forecast but we felt it was time. Another week would have been too late so we took the plunge. Ironically a little 3mm of rain during drilling made things sticky but the seed was in the ground. Seed drilled deepish to try and find a bit of moist but used same depth/drill setting as previous years.</p><p>6 weeks later, we may as well not have bothered. All the heavier land looks like being a failure as there is very little emergence. Some of the the siltier areas may survive with low plant populations if we can keep the pigeons at bay. </p><p>Lack of rainfall/soil moisture made worse by cultivations that allowed any residual moisture to escape is obviously an issue but that does not explain why perhaps 2 or 3 plants per sq metre got going and the other 47 didn`t. It does not seem possible to find either ungerminated seed or semigrown osr plants underground but the seed, although hard to find must be down there somewhere.</p><p>Locally, early drilled rape found some moisture and escaped much csfb damage and is thriving. </p><p>With the rain forecast for the East of England in the next 24 hours will the crop get a kickstart or is it doomed to failure as the autumnal clock ticks on?</p><p>Agronomist would bin the lot and has suggested the seed was drilled too deep for these dry conditions. Maybe he has a a point</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="8 Ace, post: 8395134, member: 44048"] All gone wrong this year. Drilled our OSR into dry tilth on 12th/13th September. Dry summer, no significant rain forecast but we felt it was time. Another week would have been too late so we took the plunge. Ironically a little 3mm of rain during drilling made things sticky but the seed was in the ground. Seed drilled deepish to try and find a bit of moist but used same depth/drill setting as previous years. 6 weeks later, we may as well not have bothered. All the heavier land looks like being a failure as there is very little emergence. Some of the the siltier areas may survive with low plant populations if we can keep the pigeons at bay. Lack of rainfall/soil moisture made worse by cultivations that allowed any residual moisture to escape is obviously an issue but that does not explain why perhaps 2 or 3 plants per sq metre got going and the other 47 didn`t. It does not seem possible to find either ungerminated seed or semigrown osr plants underground but the seed, although hard to find must be down there somewhere. Locally, early drilled rape found some moisture and escaped much csfb damage and is thriving. With the rain forecast for the East of England in the next 24 hours will the crop get a kickstart or is it doomed to failure as the autumnal clock ticks on? Agronomist would bin the lot and has suggested the seed was drilled too deep for these dry conditions. Maybe he has a a point [/QUOTE]
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